Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-09
NEBRASKA.

development IN tHe state.
Kearney will have four miles Of street car
track I'm operation by fall.
The Burlington extension is open to Grant,
near the Colorado line.
The prospects are good for an abundant
grape crop In Cass county.
David City expects to keep the municipality
creased for a year on 81 1000.
The prohibition state convention will be
held at Lincoln August 16 and II.
Hon. G. II. Van Wyck is the orator of the
day for the celebration at Wakefield.
The fire department. at Lincoln has been
supplied with 1000 feet OF new hose.
Work has commenced on the Plattsmouth
street car line and will be pushed rapidly.
A mob OF street railway builders tore up the
track OF a rival line at Hastings Thursday
night.
Three thousand dollars viii keep Dundy
county in smooth water during the next
year.
Loup City on Tuesday voted bonds to aid
in the construction and maintaining Of
water-works.
Plattsmouthers contribute 500 to 1000
quarts Of berries a day to Omaha's internal
arrangement.
The Hastings water works are operated at
an expense of S24,75 per day. The receipts
average 500, IS.
Some Wayne youths are counting a term in
the peniten;iary bysending obscene literature
through the mails.
~ N -. l.AI..l - 4lo I.or,;rnon Giotare
in Grand Island was formally opened with a
public dinner last Wednesday.
The editor Of the Logan County Pioneer
is warm under the collar because somebody
attempted to blackmail him out Of $50.
Springfield has deferred the July jamhoree
till the 21st, and live committees have under
taken the task Of fattening two hogs and a
bullock to grease the occasion.
A terrible sfilction befell the family Of
West Johnson, living near Mead, Saunders
county. Three of his children died during
Sunday and Monday Of last week, stricken
by diphtheria. Two years ago the couple lost
two children by the same disease.
VIM. Atkinson. a Frontier county farmer,
fell beneath the wheels OF a moving freight
train at Gothenburg, or the 22d, and had
both feet cut off. The unfortunate fingered
in terrible pain until last Tuesday, when
death relieved him. He leaves a wife and a
child.
The l2-year.old son Of A. n. Stephens, OF
Geneva, a house mover, was standing on q
rope back Of the teams pulling the building,
when a whifletree broke, striking him IN the
face. His jaw bone was broken in three
places, besides other serious injuries inflicted.
lie will probably die.
The town of Madison has presented to the
people OF Green Garden precinct, Madison
county, a handsome silk banner, with stan,
bronze eagle and gold %tassles, as a Testimonial
for the support given the donorsin the county
seat fight last fall. The precinct cast los
votes, all for Madison.
The Schuyler Quill publishes a letter from
Henry Bolton tC sustain it's charge that the
Union Pacific compels through passengers to
pay 30 cents for crossing the bridge at Omaha.
Bolton says that on June ID Agent Krazier
demanded 81. 6 for a ticket to Council Bluffs
While the fare to Omaha was e.. 10.
Mrs. Woolsey. a Juniata woman who has
been an invalid for SO long q time that her
mind became unbalanced, jumped into a els
tern with her three-year-old boy. The child
was drowned, but the mother was fshcd out
alive. She is the mother OF eight children,
and her unfortunate condition is extremely
sad.
The bridge across the Elkhorn river near
Fremont broke down Monday with a farmer
who was crossing with a load Of corn. The
man, team, bridge, corn asd all went down
fifteen feet to the water and bathed In eight
feet OF the latter. They were all rescued but
the corn through prompt assistance rendered
by citizens.
A burglar entered the room OF c. T.. Day
ton. OF Fremont, and pulled the pants from
under Mr.. Dps pillow. Several silver dollars
dropped heavily upon the floor and awakened
the sleeper, whereupon the thief fled taking
the garment with him and extracting the
wealth on the run to the music OF a revolver
close In the rear.
Mrs. Fred Bruce, Of Oakland, endeavored to
commit suicide Saturday evening by cutting
ner throat WITH u TdIDI, scSSIibS thp "he''ioi
jugular veins, and cutting through the wind
pipe. BY immediate attention, rendered bv
DIR. Clark. her life was saved. 1t is believed
she was suffering with alteration OF the mind,
as this is the second attempt she has made to
take her life.
During the parade Of the salvation army at
a colored private who was being con-
sumed by enthusiasm gave vent to his feel
Ings by crying "Fire'' at the top OF his voice.
A hose company responded promptly, and
when thev ascertained the origin OF the alarm
they concluded to cool the ardor OF the col
ored gent, and when they got through with
him he looked as II he had been trying to
corral a water spout.
A drove of misfortunes have fallen on a
farmer named IIartwell, living near Juniata.
The loss OF an only child some time ago so
preyed upon the mind OF his wife that she
became insane and suicided last week. The
family purse was empty and Hartwell tried to
sell some Of his stock to pay burial expenses.
A sharper took him In and beat him out OF a
mule with a bogus check. The animal was
sold in a ~neighboring town, but the rascally
swindler was caught and allied.
The willard Richardson tragedy in Loup
City Is developing the worst features of hu-
man hatred and persecution. The refusal to
Richardson to bail, although the evil